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OP NEWS Alastair Whatley (2002) is completing his fourth and final UK tour of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, which has been seen by over 200,000 people since 2013. Alastair’s spring season has been a busy one, as his Original Theatre Company has also completed a national tour of The Importance of Being Earnest – a play he vividly remembers studying in the Junior Mummery – and is currently directing a new comedy – Monogamy.
Antonia Goddard (2012) wrote and produced a critically acclaimed one-act play, I am Turpin, which was performed at Theatre N16 in October 2017. The play, which centres around Dick Turpin’s final days in prison, starred Hugh Train as the eponymous anti-hero and Phoebe Sparrow (Downton Abbey, Inside No. 9) as his gaoler Abigail. The play received stellar reviews and will be restaged by Harlow Theatre as part Colin McFarlane (1980) starred alongside
of their 2018–19 season.
Liam Neeson is his latest film The Commuter, which was released in January. The action-packed film sees Neeson Stephen Reicher (1974) was
caught up in a deadly criminal conspiracy
interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili
while on his daily commute home from
on The Life Scientific on BBC
work, with McFarlane playing Sam the
Radio 4. Stephen, a social
conductor. Colin will also be back on our
psychologist at St Andrews
screens soon in his role as Ulysses in the
University, spoke about the
upcoming fourth season of Golden-Globe
positive and negative sides to a
nominated series Outlander.
crowd, and the role of crowd leaders. If you missed it, you can hear it on Helen Petrovna (2006,
BBC iPlayer.
neé Duckhouse) is currently on tour with the Broadway and West End A chapter written by Adrienne May (1958)
smash hit Legally Blonde
appeared in Trans Britain: Our Journey From
The Musical. Helen is
The Shadows, edited by Christine Burns
playing Brooke Wyndham
MBE and published in January. Adrienne
in the show, which is
has written a number of novels under her
based on the popular film
pseudonym, Adrienne Nash.
of the same name.
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